The Awakening & Other Stories
by Kate Chopin
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Edna Pontellier, married to a successful creole speculator from New Orleans, spends the summer on Grand Isle and falls in love. Her affair with Robert Lebrun awakens in her a new sense of spiritual and sexual self-awareness.
This tale of a mixed marriage and adultery so shocked Kate Chopin's contemporaries that it effectively ended her literary career. Today, it is recognized as a masterpiece of American feminist literature.
As well as the novella, The Awakening, this book contains fifteen of Chopin's short stories.
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short stories, miscegenation, Louisiana Creoles, quadroons, racism, impulse, responsibility, short story, freedom, selfhood, self-fulfilment, meaning of love, fiction, social life and customs, manners and customs, Modern Literature, American literature, feminist literature, feminist fiction, literary fiction, Adultery in fiction, Women in fiction, Adultery, Women, Self-actualization (Psychology), Married women, Married women in fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Classic Literature, Man-woman relationships, Social conditionsPeople
Armand Aubigny, Désirée, Madame Valmont, Sandrine, La Blanche, Mrs. Sommers, Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards, Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Etienne Pontellier, Raoul Pontellier, Madame Aline Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Mariequita, Adèle Ratignolle, Alphonse Ratignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, Farival twins, Monsieur Farival, Beaudelet, Madame Antoine, Toni Antoine, Old Celestine, Ellen Joe, Doctor Mandelet, Alcée Arobin, Mrs. Highcamp, James Highcamp, Mrs. Merriman, Miss Mayblunt, Gouvernail, Madame PontellierPlaces
Louisiana, United States, New Orleans, Grand Isle, Chênière Caminada, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, New York City, L’Abri, Mallard residenceTimes
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"A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!"
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Contains:
The Awakening
Wiser than a god. --
A point at issue! --
A shameful affair. --
Miss McEnders. --
At the 'Cadian Ball. --
Desiree's Baby
Madame Celestin's divorce. --
A Lady of Bayou St. John. --
La Belle Zoraide. --
A respectable woman. --
The Story of an Hour
Regret. --
The kiss. --
Athenaise. --
A Pair of Silk Stockings
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